Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-07-07
WOMAN'S WATCHFUl EYE.
Women as Detectives Catch the SaIier
Features of "A Face mt +, Glance.

Women as Detectives Catch the Salient
Features of "A Face Mt u Glance.
One Of Pmksrton's old detectives recently
finding persons by description
Men, said he "as a rule are not so clos.
Observers as women, and do not give what
call detective descriptions of persons II YOU
ask a man TO describe a person he gives a
general description that will suit Thousand
or 50. having the same color of air and ewes
! remember TRYING to capture woman once
who was in league with some hiding counter
feiters. Several men described her in a gen
erai way and watched carefully the train
she was supposed to come into the city on
every day. found half a dozen ON every
train that could have answered the dcscrip-
ton. After a week of fallurp and chagrin
found a woman who hal seen her and knew
enough {" give NE description. Her de-
scription had strong detective point, only
one, but enough. 1t was the peculiar way
the counterfciter did up her hair That cue
brought me success the next day for | ar
rested the right woman, through woman's
description. Another woman whom | ar
rested through a description furnished by one
of her own sex was recognized by the way
she raiSei her eyelids She had a fiirty way
of looking out nf her eyes. and her observing
sister Of course noticed that l.eculiarity at
once.
The first thing that strikes a woman about
another person is almost invariably "A salient
feature and one which can be recognized
easily. Salient features are not so apt TO
strike "A man; he is less oi,Servant. Once |
hunted mau with his right thumb off for
two weeks | saw him every day. but he.
Lad a false thumb on, So | did not know him.
But he was n slick chap and most wonderful
Ia assuming disgui>eS. | had him cornered in
a place once, sS ! thought, when middle
aged man came out and aske,. what was the
matter and wanted 10 know if he could help
me. i wanted his help and asked him 10
stand at n certain door. That was tie last
OF him that night. He was the man WA.
looking for and had cleverly disguised him
self.
1T is easy to find a man when you ha. e
once seen him and have his features indeliFIv
Impressed upon your memory. But in
description you cannot so easily transfer the
photograph to another's mind Only one
thing Is necessary to say about persoas in
order to identify them if il is III some ;,romi-
nent charactc. istic II you will study
human face closely you will find it hiss some
thing i'll it distinctive and diifereut from
Others. The thing is to describe it Crooks
and criminals do not disguise mnch these
days; their game is to keep concealed out of
the way of arrest In Russia the-e Is such
system of espionage that nearly every man in
the empire has correct descriI ton written
of him and entered upon the books of the
police. Even with this precauLion thousand,
of Nihilists escape detection. Stepniak, the
Nihilisi. was fully known TO Che Russian po-
lice. Yet he made his escare AMI lives hap
ply in London. Women in certain detective
work may do very well. but all around a man
is far superior. New York Mail and Ex
press.